Mandana will compete alongside England’s Nat Cyber, New Zealand’s Amelia Kerr and Australia’s Beth Mooney for top honors.
Opening in style Her player Smriti Mandhana is the only Indian male and female category nominated for the ICC Cricket Player of the Year.
Mandana will compete alongside England’s Nat Cyber, New Zealand’s Amelia Kerr and Australia’s Beth Mooney for top honors.
Pakistani skipper Babar Azam, England Test captain Ben Stokes, Zimbabwe all-rounder Sikandar Raza and New Zealand Test captain Tim Southey are among the contenders for the Men’s Cricket of the Year award.
Stokes is also one of his Test Cricket of the Year nominees alongside fellow countryman Jonny Bairstow, Australian opener Usman Khawaja, South African speedster Kagiso He rabada. Voting for the awards will begin next week, giving cricket fans around the world the opportunity to vote alongside a dedicated ICC voting academy, including representatives from prominent cricket media, to determine the 2022 winners. the ICC said in its explanation.
2021 ICC Women’s Cricketer of the Year Rachael Heyhoe Winning her trophy, Mandhana is back in contention for the coveted award in 2022.
Mandhana went on to record prolific form in her second consecutive year in international cricket, becoming India’s top scorer in all formats. Showing incredible ability in her white-ball format, she was the top run-getter in her T20Is (594 runs) in India and her second-best finish in the ODI (696 runs).
Mandana has been present in major tournaments of both the Women’s Cricket World Cup and the Commonwealth Games this year. In the latter she was one of India’s driving force and reached the final in her first-ever women’s cricket her event at the Commonwealth Her Games, winning the silver medal.
Stokes is a frontrunner on the road to men’s cricketer of the year.
England endured a nightmare in Test cricket after suffering a humiliating series loss against the Ashes and the West Indies. Joe Root stepped down as test skipper and the reins were taken over by Stokes and trainer Brendon McCallum. Since then, Stokes has taken England to new heights, winning 9 of their 10 Tests as captain. In the process he scored 870 runs, including his double century, and took 26 wickets.
Amulet jack-of-all-trades, he hasn’t had a glorious whiteball year. In fact, he announced his retirement from ODI his cricket to concentrate on other formats.
In T20Is he scored his 143 runs and in nine games he took seven wickets. The numbers don’t seem to matter, but 52 of them came when England needed them most in the T20 World Cup final against Pakistan.